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Mentor Graphics Corporation announced it has signed Macnica Americas, Inc., a technical component distributor and supplier of intellectual property and design services, as a new distributor for North America. The Mentor Graphics® products offered by Macnica Americas include the ModelSim® simulator, the Questa® functional verification platform, and the HyperLynx® family of high-speed printed circuit board (PCB) simulation and analysis tools. As a technical distributor serving many FPGA and ASIC designers, and developer of IP and design services, Macnica Americas provides expertise in design simulation, unified verification, and PCB analysis for signal integrity.  “Mentor provides world-class tools that accelerate FPGA and ASIC design and system verification,” stated John Burton, President of Macnica Americas, Inc. “Our partnership with Mentor enables us to help our mutual customers achieve design success on time and within budget.” “Macnica Americas not only supplies FPGAs and other components, but develops IP and provides design services, so they know about the complete design process and

3D Systems Corporation announced today that it named Kevin McAlea Executive Vice-President & Chief Operating Officer for its healthcare business. In this new role, McAlea will be responsible for developing and executing 3DS’ healthcare growth strategy, integrating recent acquisitions into a cohesive and synergistic suite of products and services, and scaling the company’s rapidly developing healthcare category. “I am delighted that Kevin McAlea is at the helm of our healthcare business,” said Avi Reichental, President and Chief Executive Officer, 3DS. “With more than two decades of 3D global business and technology experience, Kevin is uniquely qualified to lead our fast growing healthcare business.” Since joining the company in 2001, as part of the DTM acquisition, McAlea has held several senior leadership roles at 3D Systems. Most recently, he served as 3DS’ Chief Impact Officer and oversaw the successful acquisition, integration and commercialization of 3D Systems’ direct metals printer line, following the company’s

CADsoft Consulting Inc., hosted an Autodesk InfraWorks 360 road show across the southwestern U.S. with special guest presenters, James Wedding, P.E., Autodesk Sr. Technical Specialist and customer, Keith Warren, Sr. Program Manager, CALTROP The road show took place on November 4th in Tucson, AZ, November 5th in Phoenix, AZ, and ending November 6th in Albuquerque, NM. Infrastructure projects are being impacted by increasing project complexities, competition, and technology innovation. Many companies are addressing these challenges by examining workflow and technology choices to enhance their design process. James showed how Autodesk InfraWorks 360 and Vehicle Tracking are complimenting Autodesk Revit and AutoCAD Civil 3D workflows in order to:  Win more work Expedite approvals Quickly and easily explore design alternatives Improve visualizations and stakeholder communication Analyze and optimize your designs for best performance In addition, Keith Warren of CALTROP shared the process of CIM (Civil Information Modeling) and how using advance design technology along with scanning they created a foundation for intelligent infrastructure design.

Bentley Systems announced the winners of the 2014 Be Inspired Awards. The awards honor the extraordinary work of Bentley users improving the world’s infrastructure. They were presented last night at a ceremony during The Year in Infrastructure 2014 Conference, held 4-6 November in London, United Kingdom. This global gathering of leading executives in the world of infrastructure design, construction, and operations featured presentations and interactive sessions exploring the intersection of technology and business drivers, and how they are shaping the future of infrastructure delivery and investment returns. It was also attended by more than 100 members of the media from leading publications around the globe. Special guest keynoters included: Professor Andrew McNaughton, FREng, Chief Engineer and Technical Director, HS2 Ltd. Andrew McNaughton has been with HS2 Ltd since 2009, developing the principles, network, and specific route design for high speed rail in Great Britain. Ed Merrow, Founder and President of Independent Project Analysis, Inc. Ed Merrow is

exocad® announced today that they have acquired  the assets of STI Holdings, the provider of the Sensable Dental Lab System (SDLS).  SDLS, the powerful and versatile CAD/CAM solution for partial framework design, required a proprietary 3D haptic (touch feedback) device.  Exocad has previewed the world's first mouse-driven version of the software at the Dental Lab Owners Association of California (DLOAC), 11th International CAD/CAM Expo & Symposium, October 31, 2014 - November 2, 2014, in Anaheim, CA. "This acquisition underscores our commitment to providing labs and dentists with best available products and extends our design capability to both metal and flexible partial dentures," said Tillmann Steinbrecher, general manager and CEO of exocad.  "The advanced voxel-processing technology we have acquired is complementary to our current mesh-based CAD technology, and we look forward to further accelerating the development of our Complete Solution for Digital Dentistry with this new asset."  The purchase includes licenses to key patents, as well as pending patents, related to

Advanced Solutions, an Autodesk Platinum Partner and Authorized Training Center (ATC), announced the recent acquisition of Clayton, North Carolina based Greenleaf 3D. Greenleaf 3D was founded in 2008 as an Autodesk authorized reseller, focused exclusively on selling Autodesk products and services to the Architectural, Engineering and Construction (AEC) markets for both public and private sector clients. The acquisition continues to reinforce Advanced Solutions' Autodesk partnership, while building upon their global foot print and the continued ability to serve its customers at large. Greenleaf 3D will join the Advanced Solutions team in providing customers with an award-winning technical team, multiple industry specializations, valuable professional services, and optimal solutions to enhance customer's productivity and profitability. "We are honored to have the Greenleaf 3D family of customers join Advanced Solutions. Susan Sykes is an exceptional leader who built a wonderful company focused on a high level of customer service. The match with Advanced Solutions culture of 'Customer First' was a

Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc., announces the availability of localized versions of Vectorworks 2015 in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese and Norwegian. The Vectorworks line of award-winning software products includes: Designer, Architect, Landmark, Spotlight, Fundamentals and Renderworks®. The Vectorworks 2015 software contains more than 100 updates and new features in the areas of architecture, BIM, urban planning and entertainment design. In previous versions, the power of 64-bit was only available in the platform’s photorealistic rendering engine, Renderworks, but has now been integrated throughout the entire Vectorworks 2015 product line, providing designers with the ability to handle larger projects, as well as better performance and stability. In addition, designers will observe a revolutionary graphical experience from advances made to the Vectorworks Graphics Module (VGM), which was introduced last year. “We’re very excited to provide the new Vectorworks 2015 version to our European markets,” said Stewart Rom, Chief Marketing Officer of Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. “This has

Informative Graphics Corporation (IGC®) has announced the release of Brava!® Enterprise 7.2.1 for IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3. Brava Enterprise 7.2.1 seamlessly provides users of IBM Content Navigator 2.0.3 with the ability to view and collaborate on content. It includes such enhanced features as document compare, threaded discussions, robust redaction tools and more. Custom dialogs also can be created based on business process needs. At last week’s IBM Insight 2014, IGC demonstrated its integrations into IBM Content Navigator, which can tie in to IBM’s Enterprise Content Management systems such as IBM FileNet P8, Content Manager 8, Case Manager, Maximo and TRIRIGA.

Bentley Systems announce plans for an AssetWise Academy. Bentley’s AssetWise software is already being rolled out and further extended to serve as the Highways Agency’s Integrated Asset Management Information System (IAM IS). Now Bentley and the Highways Agency announce plans to provide a virtual environment for introducing and propagating best practices for BIM-enabled asset management, through the AssetWise Academy. David Robertson, Bentley Director, BIM academies, said, “Building on the successful academy development with Crossrail, the goal of the Highways Agency’s new AssetWise Academy is to drive industry best practices and standards, evolve solution templates, capture and recycle lessons learned, and advance asset lifecycle information management across the Highways Agency’s business. This will be achieved through onboarding and awareness sessions, forums, and targeted seminars and working groups within the AssetWise Academy, all supported by project-specific course content created jointly by Bentley and the Highways Agency.” Robert Greaves, Head of IT at the Highways Agency, said, “As the Highways Agency changes our

ModelPort, a new 3D object and model importer for ArchiCAD, is now available on AECObjects.com. A plug-in for ArchiCAD, ModelPort translates 3D model formats such as Alias Wavefront OBJ and Autodesk FBX, into ArchiCAD Library parts. A 3D model or object converted with ModelPort includes a detailed, projected 2D symbol and creates an ArchiCAD material with the original texture maps in place. ModelPort also includes scaling and rotation tools to assist with dialing in the correct size of objects. File management tools allow imported objects to be saved into custom Library folders for future use. “ModelPort will allow ArchiCAD users to access thousands of 3D objects previously unavailable to them,” says Thomas M. Simmons, BIM Consultant. “We are pleased to offer a solution that will make designing in ArchiCAD even better.” There are three versions of ModelPort available: ModelPort OBJ, which converts OBJ and 3DS formats; ModelPort FBX, which converts FBX and DAE (Collada) formats; and a